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W32.Sobig.E@mm Worm Spreading Rapidly
mabu writes "Apparently there is another worm spreading online. Symantec has upgraded its severity to 'category 3.' This worm appears to primarily affect Microsoft systems, has an expiration date of July 14th, and searches users' machines for select files containing e-mail addresses that it uses to propagate itself."
This is news? Men should be able to synchronize their calendar by a) their woman's period or b) the latest windows worm.
Stuff that matters? The only people that this really affects are sysadmins who have to deal with tons of wormspam in their users' mailboxes. Maybe also those poor souls who maintain large networks of windows boxen. But really, those people would already be on top of this...
no it's not, if I were an idiot and opened an attachment like this on my linux system, the worst it could do is damage my home directory, the rest of the system would still be immune along with everybody elses files.
I hate to stoop to responding to an A/C but the "cheese and baguette eating cowards" are the only country with soldiers in the Congo-- a war that has seen greater bloodshed in recent years than Iraq. I guess US troops aren't there because there would be no photo-ops for Shrub.
Acquiescence leads to obliteration
Microsoft provided software fixes to prevent this style of virus like 3 years ago. Even without those, just running a virus scanner with weekly updates to dat files would be more than an adequate solution.
:)), should we blame on Linux?
and then they received a email with a shell script containing rm -rf / (assuming the user runs as root
Ok, how about 'rm -rf ~'? Wiping out enduser files is going to upset people more than the OS files.
(yea, I know sometimes we should blame on Microsoft, but not everytime)
Oh no, this is slashbot... Microsoft is responsible for everything, including the braindead mechanism of SMTP which doesn't authenticate users before allowing them to relay spam off you.
Ah ha! I knew it was just a matter of time before some idjit on slashdot would blame Microsoft for the design of SMTP.
Thank you troll.